What would make a genteel, white Southern lady from Mississippi want to start a company to record black blues and golspel artists,...and in the early 1950s? Find out on this episode of "Blues You Should Know" with Bob Frank. Trumpet Records didn't last very long, but while it was going, it was the only record company headquartered in Mississippi, and recorded the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson, Elmore James, Jerry McCain, Big Boy Crudup and more.
12/29/20 • 37 min
Blues You Should Know - Lillian McMurray & Trumpet Records
Transcript
Lillian McMurray was a proper Southern white lady. Born Lillian Shedd in Purvis, MS to a fairly poor family that moved around a great deal, Lillian, as a young girl, taught herself to play piano, learned secretarial and accounting skills and eventually, in her early twenties, became executive secretary to the Governor of Mississippi. In 1945, she married Willard McMurray, a Jackson furniture salesman, and left her job to work with him in their family business.
In 1950, the McMurrays b
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